brainsick
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of brainsick
before 1000; Middle English brain-seke, Old English brægensēoc. See brain, sick 1
Example Sentences
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Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
And then again he strove to put that from him, saying that what he had seen was but meet for one brainsick, and a dreamer of dreams.
From Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
Chapel and Barn-howrie would be upon my Top, and pursue me before the Commissary, and every Body will look upon me, as brainsick or mad.
From The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by Anonymous
Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much, if the man be not brainsick.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
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